On Tuesday 12 July 2005 07:27 pm, Kent West wrote: > Benjamin Sher wrote: > >On Tuesday 12 July 2005 06:50 pm, Darryl Clarke wrote: > >>On 7/12/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>Dear friends: > >>> > >>>Is there a special Debian package for RealPlayer 10? Since it is a > >>>commercial package, I'd imagine that it's not part of Sarge itself. > >> > >>http://www.real.com/linux?pcode=rn&src=freeplayer_partner&opage=freeplaye > >>r_partner > >> > >>There's no .deb that I'm aware of. Their installer works fine though. > > > >Thanks for the tip. My problem is that I don't know if Debian allows you > > to install an RPM? Which RealPlayer package should I install, please? > > Just click on the big yellow button that says "Download Realplayer"; > it's a Linux binary. The RPM is under the "Advanced" heading (eh . . ?!). > > And to answer your question about RPMs being installed in Debian, many > of them can be installed using the Alien package; as a general rule, > you'd probably rather have a tarball than an RPM, at least in my opinion. > > -- > Kent
Dear Kent: I've downloaded the "bin" version of RealPlayer 10. I imagine that this is the one I should install (rather than converting the rpm to deb with alien). Where does the "bin" install to: /usr/local? If so, could I use stow? What's your recommendation? Thank you. Benjamin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
